Winston Churchill Quotes About Socialism

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  Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

  Winston Churchill

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Democratic Socialism

  Speech at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland, May 28, 1948.
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  Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Horse, Business

  The Economist, July 6, 2012.
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  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Freedom, Independent

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

• Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, History, Secret

  "Churchill By Himself".

• The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Trust, Witty

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks

• The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

  Winston Churchill

  Vices, Politics, Misery

• Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Dictator, Socialism

  Letter, 11 Nov. 1937, in Step by Step (1939) p. 186. Cf. the proverb "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount" (see Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs under rides)

• Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

  Winston Churchill

  Dream, Military, Reality

• Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Needs, Poverty

• Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

  Winston Churchill

  Politics, Worship, Socialism

• Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Police, Politics

• You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Hate, Hands

• Socialism would gather all power to
  the supreme party and party leaders,
  rising like stately pinnacles
  above their vast bureaucracies of
  civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.

  Winston Churchill

  Party, Leader, Rising

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

• The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

  Winston Churchill

  Blessing, Libertarian, Misery

• It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

  Winston Churchill

  Liberty, Fundamentals, Socialism

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.478, Da Capo Press

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